Janata Petr, Grafton Scott T
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Jul;6(7):682-7. doi: 10.1038/nn1081.
Music consists of precisely patterned sequences of both movement and sound that engage the mind in a multitude of experiences. We move in response to music and we move in order to make music. Because of the intimate coupling between perception and action, music provides a panoramic window through which we can examine the neural organization of complex behaviors that are at the core of human nature. Although the cognitive neuroscience of music is still in its infancy, a considerable behavioral and neuroimaging literature has amassed that pertains to neural mechanisms that underlie musical experience. Here we review neuroimaging studies of explicit sequence learning and temporal production--findings that ultimately lay the groundwork for understanding how more complex musical sequences are represented and produced by the brain. These studies are also brought into an existing framework concerning the interaction of attention and time-keeping mechanisms in perceiving complex patterns of information that are distributed in time, such as those that occur in music.
音乐由精确编排的动作和声音序列组成，这些序列能让大脑参与到众多体验之中。我们会随着音乐移动，也会为了创作音乐而移动。由于感知与行动之间存在紧密联系，音乐提供了一扇全景之窗，透过它我们可以审视作为人类本性核心的复杂行为的神经组织。尽管音乐认知神经科学仍处于起步阶段，但已经积累了大量关于音乐体验背后神经机制的行为学和神经影像学文献。在此，我们回顾关于显性序列学习和时间生成的神经影像学研究——这些发现最终为理解大脑如何表征和生成更复杂的音乐序列奠定了基础。这些研究还被纳入一个现有的框架，该框架涉及在感知随时间分布的复杂信息模式（如音乐中出现的信息模式）时注意力和计时机制的相互作用。
